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ENTOMOLOGICAL INTELLIGENCE, NOTICES OF 
NEW WORKS. &c. 
(No. XVI.) 
Catalog der KasfeiuSamlung von Jacob Sturm. Nuremburg, 1843. With 
6 coloured copper-plates. 8vo, 386 pages. 
We have here an imitation of the Catalogue of Dejean’s Collec¬ 
tion of Coleopterous insects, with, however, occasional references 
to figures and sjmonymes. There is, however, a vast difference in 
the amount of species of the two collections, and consequently in 
the comparative usefulness of the two catalogues. Dejean’s last 
edition contained considerably more than 20,000 species, whereas 
Sturm gives but 13,266. In many of the more interesting groups, 
the poverty of the latter list is very striking: thus, there is only 
1 species of Oxycheila, 1 Dromica, 2 Therates, 1 Casnonia, 4 
Panagsei, 2 Rhipicerse, 1 Callirhipis, 3 Goliathi (micans, japonicus, 
and Hdpfneri), 2 Paussi. The catalogue is, as may be easily sup¬ 
posed, strongest in European and Brazilian species. An appendix 
contains descriptions and figures (beautifully drawn, engraved, and 
coloured) of the following insects :—Three new Brazilian species of 
Lia (a genus allied to Lehia) ; Axinidium africanum, St., a new 
genus, referred to the Scaritidae, but having more of the habit of 
Stomis and Miscodera, with long toothless mandibles, long slender 
maxilla?, with the hook not articulated (judging from the figure, 
for the description is silent as to this character), maxillary palpi 
strongly securiform, labial palpi slender and filiform, mentum coni¬ 
cally produced in the centre, fore tibiae not externally dentated 
(but with the deep notch and spur on the inside) ; the species is 4 
lines long, black, smooth, with red antennae, palpi, and feet, the 
elytra smooth, each having three deep punctures. Julodes Rothii, 
St., from Jerusalem; Lycus appendiculatus,;St., from Senegal, allied 
to L. foliaceus, Sch.; Hydrophilus substriatus, St., from the neigh¬ 
bourhood of Cassel; 3 Mexican species of Phanaeus; Scarabseus 
Petiveri, Erichs. (Dejeanii Buq., GolofaPorteri Hope); 7 Mexican 
species of Pelidnota; Amphicoma Papaveris, from Jerusalem; 
Chiasognathus Grantii, 3 and ? (two brilliant figures) ; Rysso- 
notus nebulosus, Kirby; Lucanus turcicus, from Constantinople; 
with 6 plates in the club of the antennas; my Xyphodontus 
